I don't think its fake news at all. Iraqi weapons of mass destruction is fake news, Saddam was linked to 9/11 is fake news, Saddam put people in shredding machines was fake news, and lets not forget the first gulf war story, Iraqi soldiers took babies out of incubators in Kuwait city was fake news.
This entire 'Russia hacked the election' narrative is based on a report by a company called Crowdstrike that was hired by the DNC and proceeded to tell them what they wanted to hear. Now that doesn't mean that it wasn't true. However don't you find it extraordinary that James Comey admitted again the other day under oath that the FBI never examined the DNC servers but instead just took Crowdstrike's word for what happened?
However you might say "well if the FBI and CNN, and NYT and NBC all trust Crowdstrike to be accurate then that's good enough for me. I trust the judgement of three letter goverment agencies and three letter media companies"
OK then lets take a look at a report from a three letter government agency that is also a three letter media company. Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-clinton-trump/3776067.html